Jar opener and closer.



No. 845,118. PATENTED FEB. 26, 1907. W. H. PHEASANT. JAR OPENER AND CLOSER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 22, 1904.

Tm: NORRIS PETERS co, WASHINGTDN, n. c.

UNTTED sTA Es PATENT mm WILLIAM H. PHEASANT, OF MOOLURE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO ORIE A. CRAWFORD, OF MoCLURE, PENNSYLVANIA.

JAR OPENER AND CLOSER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Feb. 26, 1907.

Application filed November 22,1904. Serial No. 233,919.

To all who/7L it pea/y concern: I and moving the handle in either direction Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. PHEAsthe round end of the handle will be brought ANT, a citizen of the United States, residing l into engagement with the cap and the ring at McClure, in the county of Snyder and will be contracted and clamped to the cap State of Pennsylvania, vhave invented a new i and by continuing the movement the cap and useful Jar Opener and Closer, of which can be screwed or unscrewed according to the the following is a specification. direction of movement of the handle. As This invention is ahousehold tool designed l soon as the operation is completed the tool to be used for opening and closing the screwl can be removed by bringing the handle back tops of jars and cans, the object of the invento a central position and lifting the ring from tion being to provide a cheap, simple, and the cap. Ifthe cap is to beremoved, the tool efiicient device and one which can be easily can be held clamped to the cap and used as a arranged and operated, a movement in one lifter after the cap has been unscrewed. direction serving to grip the top and turn it Having thus fully described my invention, in one direction and a movement in the oppowhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by site direction causing it to grip the top and Letters Patent, isturn it in the opposite direction. A jar opener and closer of the kind de- The invention consists in the novel feascribed, comprising a handle having a broad tures of construction and combination hereflattened rounded end, two flat curved plates inafter fully described, and pointed out in the pivotally connected to the flat end of the claim. I handle, one on each side of the longitudinal In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the I handle projects somepractical operation of my rounded end of the invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the what within the curve of the inner edges of tool, the jar-top being shown in dotted lines the plates, two curved plates of greater and Fig. 3 is an edge view of the tool. length pivotally connected together at one In constructing a tool in accordance with my invention I employ a handle A, having a broad flattened round inner end A, to which end, their other ends being pivotally connected to the free ends of the first-named plates, the broad surfaces of the said plates are pivotally connected the curved fingers or I and handle lying in approximately the same plates B and C, said fingers or plates being I plane, whereby a flat ring is formed which is pivoted at B and C upon opposite sides of adapted to be clamped about the cap of a jar the longitudinal diameter of the handle, and when the handle is turned in either direction pivotally connected to the fingers or plates B so as to bring the projecting rounded end of and O are the curved plates D and E, respecf said handle into engagement with the cap. tively, the ivots bein designated D and E, 7

and these illembers aIe pivoted at D thus l ILLIAM PHEASANT' providing a clamping-ring composed of secl Witnesses:

tions and so connected to the handle that by AMos HOWELL,

placing the ring over the cap F of the jar G N EV B. MmnLEswoRTH.

center thereof, and in such position that the 

